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  • [302] _Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk_; or possibly John Scott's _Paris

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • Kinsfolk should not see faults to which strangers are blind.

    Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

  • Citizens of Verona; male and female Kinsfolk to both Houses; Masquers, Guards, Watchmen and Attendants.

    Dramatis Personæ. Romeo and Juliet 1914

  • Then came dry notes of a visit to Kinsfolk in Virginia.

    A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • He expresses his astonishment that this particular sin should have been visited upon him at a distance of three thousand miles, when the Quarterly reviewer's own fame rested on the more aggravated instance of a book of personalities published under the very noses of the persons described (Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk).

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

  • "Eat thy fill, O Righteous Bird, and let thy Kinsfolk eat, too, for thy sake."

    The Art of the Story-Teller Marie L. Shedlock 1894

  • Cry of the Captured, my Kinsfolk will be terrified, and they will fly away foodless.

    The Art of the Story-Teller Marie L. Shedlock 1894

  • But alas! he did not know that his Kinsfolk had nought of his brave spirit.

    The Art of the Story-Teller Marie L. Shedlock 1894

  • Kinsfolk he had none whom he cared to remember, except his sister; she lived at Wolverhampton, a wife and mother, in narrow but not oppressive circumstances, and Hilliard had taken leave of her in a short visit some days ago.

    Eve's Ransom George Gissing 1880

  • Kinsfolk and old friends were coming from far and wide to assist at the ceremony, for whom temporary rooms were to be arranged in all manner of places.

    Vixen, Volume III. 1875

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